The bank and leadership is obsessed with expansion, so much so that they fail to realize what it actually takes to grow a successful organization. You might want to start adopting industry best practices and let go of archaic and legacy systems.

After a year of work a coworker of mine still feels like an outside looking in. For me I feel the same way after 6 months however its not as big of a deal for me as I'm not knee deep in the trenches. Overall people are friendly.

Overall Satisfactory company to work for; the overall culture was positive experience. At times there could be communication issues between upper management and lower function with procedures; were changes in policies and procedures were not effectively communicated to lower level workers. This caused disruption of workflow.

Gained a great deal of knowledge regarding excel, banking procedures. An emphasis on women in leadership has been established and continues to grow. With the tax reform all hourly employees received a 7.5% raise. 401K received a 50% match increase for our 401k, and 16 paid weeks off for maternity leave.

Pros

Lunches, team builders, open door policy

Cons

lack of training, high expectations and low preparation. Highly political atmosphere

This is an excellent place to work with additional lending products such as municipal loans and syndications. Western Alliance Bank has ventured into territory that is usually unavailable outside the global banking market, and there is much to learn.

I was recruited by WAB from another company in which I was highly regarded and appreciated. From the very beginning, my supervisors were gunning to remove me so that they could replace me with someone they found after giving me the offer. They gave me work that I was not trained in (and had nothing to do with my job) and then critized me when I didn't do it perfectly. They never gave me guidance or coaching on how to improve my performance. I just got vague answers that I was "unprofessional" and "not living up to expectations", but when I asked them to be more specific, they had no concrete answers to me. They dismissed me without any warning within 6 weeks.

Since the first day I started it was a confusing place to work... Paperwork was never constant and always changing because of all of the affiliates. The manager we had was severely abusive towards us and HR did nothing for 2 1/2 years until we all complained for the final time until they finally got it... Just yesterday 7/22 they laid off two more people, both management.. So to ask if your job is secure is a big no... If you apply for this position I hope you're a woman that likes showing skin because that's only way to move up in this company...

Pros

Developed great relationships with clients

Cons

High deductible for insurance. Poor management, and highly discriminatory..

I was able to get a great understanding of the banking world, the internal operations and functions within a financial institution. Over my tenure we experienced the economic downturn of 2008 into the present day recovery. Interesting to experience the challenges presented by adversity, but also see growth - organically and through acquisition. A good management and workforce with high professional standards.

I learned an amazing amount during my time there and used to absolutely love my job. However, the culture started to change (not for the better) when the company went public and everything took an even greater downturn when the current IT management took over. Things rapidly declined into a spiral of layoffs and outsourcing, the end result of which is yet to be determined.

There are a lot of good people working at the company and I want nothing but success for them and for the company, but I have grave doubts about the current direction of the IT department, whose poor performance could be a drag on the company as a whole.

Basically my includes answering phones and helping clients and potential clients with their questions and concerns. There is also data entry involved. Great management that really cares for their employees. The one down fall is that there is not room to move up in my particular dept. The salary could be better. But all in all in very good company to work for.

Not a disgruntled employee here, but no amount of money can get me back the years I suffered there. Lack of transparency. Lack of pay. Lack of training, too many managers who don't do a thing. Virtually no pay raises while the company brags about how profitable they are. Employees are told not to socialize with each other. Don't bother with this place, go apply for unemployment instead

The experience I had from working for this company was horrible. First of all HR is joke!!! The company needs to pay for branch managers and CSM's to go for training in leadership skills.

When I began having issues with management, I had complained several different times to HR on several different occasions about the issues; and every time they came back saying there was no issues which was a lie. HR would rather side with management than resolve the issues. I witnessed temps being bullied by management, and customers complaints about the management. You're required to know how to work every position on the operation side but won't get the title or pay.

I work for the Phoenix, AZ office location for a week and I was promised by the hiring manager that I will get the proper training up to 6+ weeks to learn the job. Well the first day as the last day I worked for ebanking dept (which was only 5 days) I spent 80% of the day patiently waiting and talking with near by coworkers and I approached the "Training Managers" on what's on the agenda and they gave me the same excuse "We're busy" and after the 5th working day I gave up on this joke called a company. The interesting thing was the managers and coworkers would talk about getting drunk, partying, and trash talking the later complain about no having enough man power to get the job done "more effectively" lol.

Simply put, I love my work in this company and did not have any desire to leave. However, a new manager was hired into our department and quite literally cleaned house of everyone regardless of credential or experience and filled the vacancies with his own choices without review or check and balances from any of the other managers. It was like watching a movie unfold.